BOY FOUND DEAD

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20089, 19 November 1930, Page 6

BOY FOUND DEAD

+ VERDICT OF ACCIDENTAL DROWNING. A verdict thar Alexander Griffith Graham died from being accidentally drowned in the Estuary was returned by Mr E. D. Mosley, Coroner, at the inquest into the death of Graham, held yesterday. Airs Alice B. Bradley, of Redcliffs, said that she had found a child's body on the beach in front of her house at about four o'clock on Monday afternoon. Evelyn Maud Graham, of Redcliffs, identified the body as that of her son. Shelsaid that he was six and a half years old. On Monday she had kept him at home from school as he was not very well. In the afternoon he was out playing and she missed him shortly before two o'clock. His shoes were found on the wall above the beach at the back of the house. She and some of her children looked for him, but were not successful. Constable William John Hampton, of Sumner, said that on Monday afternoon at a quarter past four "he was informed that the body of a boy had been found on the beach at Redcliffs. In company with Dr. Bakewell he went to the place and found the body. It had evidently been left by the tide. The boy was then dead. Later the body was identified by Mrs Graham. The Coroner then returned a verdict that death was due to the boy having been accidentally drowned in the Estuarv.